OCaml NOT safe-for-space

Stephen Weeks MLton@sourcelight.com
Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:12:20 -0800 (PST)


> Did  you  see this on comp.lang.functional?  Clearly OCaml is not quite safe-
> for-space.  Pretty bad when the source of the library stuff has to work around
> this.

Yeah I saw it.  Another subtle reason not to use OCaml.  Hopefully they will
answer Daniel's subsequent question.  My bet is that they will say that they
leave pattern matching unspecified for efficiency reasons :-)